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2026

Montpellier

Call for papers - Science studies

Fiction et sciences sociales

This symposium is a direct extension of the “Fiction & Social Sciences” meeting organized in May 2024, dedicated to contemporary articulations between fiction devices and social science methodologies. The exchanges initiated on this occasion made it possible to deepen already long-standing reflections on the relationships of competition, tension, but also complementarity between academic and fictional writing, paying particular attention to emerging practices such as fictional investigation. The central challenge was to analyze how the hybridization between the documentary and fictional genres shifts the ways of investigating, writing and reproducing research results.

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Call for papers - History

Fighting Harmfulness

Work, Health, and Environment between Knowledge and Power (19th–21st Centuries)

This conference seeks to be a multidisciplinary forum (history, sociology, geography, medicine, anthropology, etc.) devoted to analysing the knowledge, practices, and repertoires of action arising from these mobilisations. It welcomes diverse historical and geographical contexts, especially beyond countries of early industrialisation, to document and map past and present struggles against harmfulness.

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

A Love Anthology of the Moroccan Sahara

This anthology as envisioned seeks to be a space of intellectual freedom for contributing researchers, aiming to further unveil the heritage of a territory deeply cherished by all Moroccans. This publication is also intended as a contribution to the expression of love — hence its title — that this space inspires among them. In its anthological format, both engaging and rigorous, it proposes to explore specific thematic areas through defined perspectives and research questions, adhering to principles of scientific rigor and objectivity.

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Call for papers - Psyche

Body awareness: therapy, practice, pedagogy

The theme of body awareness has been chosen for this conference, given the marked resurgence of interest in "reconnecting" with the body and sensations in our contemporary societies. We will concentrate on the different areas where body awareness offers new perspectives of practice and research, from healthcare to education, including the arts and sports. However, the increased visibility of this concept has also led to a proliferation of discourses and practices lacking any real conceptual or methodological foundation. These are often driven by the growing popularity of alternative or New Age approaches. The aim of this conference is to clarify the current situation by distinguishing between knowledge and practices that are supported by research and those that are not.

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Call for papers - Modern

Négocier l’image. Les pratiques photographiques dialogiques en anthropologie

Revue « Civilisations »

This thematic issue of Civilisations journal seeks to examine dialogical photographic practices in which the image becomes a space of exchange. Particular attention is given to collaborative practices that make photography a site of multidisciplinary intersections and of the co-creation of knowledge and visualities. The issue adopts a transdisciplinary approach, bringing together anthropologists, historians of the image, artists, and practice-based researchers.

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Call for papers - Representation

The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

“ASRI Journal. Art and Society” No. 31

This volume of ASRI Journal. Art and Society invites academics and visual artists, at any stage of their career, to contribute research and practices that explore the epistemic and ontological relationships and differences between the agency of AI-generated images and the agency of art images, as well as the role of artistic practice in critiquing and visualising the socio-technological conditions of visual culture in the age of GenAI.

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Tours

Call for papers - Modern

The Age of Trauma and Memory: Literature’s Role in Shaping (Post)Conflict Narratives and Meanings

The international conference responds to the need to rethink how literature shapes memory and figures trauma in (post)conflict situations by focusing on active, unresolved or ongoing, antagonisms. It aims to investigate both the analysis of narrative forms that evoke trauma and their deciphering, interpretation and reception, striving to grasp not only the expressive but also the performative dimension of writing.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Economy of leftovers and recycling

Social, political and environmental dynamics in the Global South

Economies built around waste – rubbish, unsold goods, surplus, scrap, used materials – are becoming increasingly important in the Global South. This issue therefore aims to examine these forms of economic activity from three main perspectives: environmental, socio-economic and political. The objective is to bring together empirical and theoretical work that documents, compares and problematises these waste economies based on surveys conducted in Southern countries, while taking into account the circulation and cross-influences with Northern countries. These ‘waste products’ can take various forms, which the issue intends to consider in an open and pluralistic perspective.

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Nutritional Imaginaries

Revue « Anthropology of Food »

Anthropology of Food prépare un numéro spécial sur les imaginaires nutritionnels pour une parution en février 2027. Nous attendons des contributions qui s’inscrivent dans la perspective des imaginaires nutritionnels.

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Call for papers - Sociology

Gender and Feminist Perspectives in Southeast Asia

Thematic issue, Moussons No. 49

This issue of Moussons invites a collective examination of gender relations, feminist mobilisations, and policies promoting the rights of women and gender minorities in Southeast Asia, by exploring their translations, tensions, and effects across different scales. This issue aims to contribute to a situated and decolonial reading of gender policies in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on interactions between global dynamics and local configurations, between normative institutions and collective mobilisations, and between colonial legacies and contemporary transformations. It seeks to foreground the plurality of feminist and gender-minority voices and epistemologies in the region, by supporting the translation and circulation of work produced in Southeast Asian vernacular languages into French or English, in order to foster an inclusive intellectual dialogue.

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Strasbourg

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Feminist Utopias at Work

Reorganise, Redefine, Abolish

Although feminist utopias have been the object of an important body of work especially in the literary field, the specific paradigm of labour within these experiments and imaginaries has received only limited attention. The purpose of this conference is to explore to what extent and in what ways labour (both as a site of oppression and emancipation) serves as a paradigm in feminist utopia-building. We will use the concept of utopia both as a reflexive tool for critique and as a heuristic tool for transformation.

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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Rite et économie : l’épaisseur matérielle des rituels

Rituality and Economy: The Material Thickness of Rituals

In the social sciences, the study of rituals has long been the prerogative of sociology and anthropology of religions, which have studied their role in the production of meaning and in relation to the notion of symbolic efficacy. The field of “ritual studies” has broadened this area of research by focusing on secular or religious, initiatory or syncretic rituals. The economic dimension of rituals has been a central subject of analysis since the beginnings of social and cultural anthropology. Economic anthropology, combined with ritual studies, offers us a promising framework for deepening these questions. We wish to go beyond the classical opposition between the economic and the symbolic to focus on objects, bodies, and places and their ritual as well as economic involvement.

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Paris

Call for papers - Information

Cultures de l’information, pédagogies médiatiques et interactions par écrans

The sixth edition of the IMPEC conference is entitled Imformation Cultures, Media Pedagogies, and Screen-Based Interactions. It is organized by the IMPEC research group together with the Médias, Images & Technologies team at ICP, and will be hosted by the UR RCS (EA7403) at the Institut Catholique de Paris, from July 1 to 3, 2026. In an interdisciplinary perspective, this call for papers is addressed to scholars working on these issues from the viewpoints of information and communication sciences, sociology, and linguistics, as well as political science, philosophy, psychology, and education sciences.

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Call for papers - Information

Thinking the Relationship to Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies: Powers, Resistances, Innovations

Emerging Practices in Technologies and Communication for Development

Digital technologies constitute a central factor in the transformation of contemporary societies, with artificial intelligence representing one of their most significant vectors. They simultaneously carry promises of innovation and participation, and act as vectors of dependency, exclusion, and renewed forms of domination. The aim is to explore the tensions that run through the imagination, uses and challenges of artificial intelligence and advanced digital technologies, combining critical approaches, field studies and theoretical perspectives.

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Call for papers - Language

Experience and its dimensions in child language

Revue « Faits de Langues »

This special issue of Faits de Langues aims to explore the notion of experience in the study of child language. Its objective is to explore experience in practice (its role, its materiality, its processes, its evolution, etc.), the uses of language and language development. We thus seek to bring together research that, directly or indirectly, mobilizes and/or questions experience in different linguistic dimensions (role of interaction, genres of discourse, activities) and sociocultural dimensions (multilingualism, interculturality) and in a wide variety of situations and contexts (social, familial, institutional - educational, pedagogical, clinical -, children with typical and atypical development, etc.).

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Béja

Call for papers - History

Sport, Politics, and Society

According to some specialists, sport is a universal phenomenon which, in various forms, has always existed. For others, the existence of sport in Antiquity cannot be envisaged because, at that time, it was a cultural practice with a strong religious dimension. Whatever these debates, sport can be defined as an activity practiced alone or in a group, an activity requiring physical qualities, strength, skill, reflexes, endurance, and moral qualities. Practitioners observe rules specific to each sport, exercise for their own pleasure, their health or compete in competitions. This activity is partially institutionalized: many sportsmen and women join specialized clubs, affiliated to federations that define regulations and organize official competitions, Olympic Games, world, national and regional championships, tournaments, grand prix, land or sea races, etc.

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Tunis

Call for papers - Representation

Courtyards and patios in the Mediterranean

The courtyard or patio house, based on the intimate appropriation of a fragment of sky at the heart of the domestic space, is a major archetype of human habitation. Deeply rooted in Mediterranean traditions, it surprises with its longevity and its ability to generate unique expressions, shaped by the diversity of physical and cultural contexts. This archetype, which has spanned the centuries, from the ancient world to contemporary projects, continues to inspire architects, thinkers, and creators, and has regained particular relevance in light of the challenges of the 21st century, as contemporary issues invite us to rethink modes of dwelling. To explore these dimensions, the conference adopts a multidisciplinary approach structured around four cross-cutting themes. It is aimed at a diverse range of profiles—architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, archaeologists, artists, writers, climatologists, etc.—drawing on scientific contributions, feedback from architects, and artistic expressions.

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Paris

Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

On the Trail of Prehistoric Individuals: Scientific Challenges, Methods, Perspectives

This conference explores the identification of individuals in Prehistory—a topic that inspired several foundational studies in the late 1970s and 1980s. Nearly 50 years later, where do we stand? From the Palaeolithic to the Metal Ages, how can we attempt to identify individuals through the full range of available archaeological remains and materials? What methods can we employ to achieve this? What are the conditions of their use, their levels of resolution, and more broadly, their advantages and limitations? By applying these methods, what insights can we hope to gain into the social and economic organisation of past societies? Finally, how can we envision the future of this ambitious, yet undeniably complex, field of research?

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Clermont-Ferrand

Call for papers - Geography

Disability issues in French and European Overseas Territories

The situation of people with disabilities is specific in French or European overseas areas (the Azores, Aruba, Bermuda...). Several phenomena characterize them (marginality on several scales, insularity possibly, particular legislation, economic situation). Moreover, each territory has specificities of the same order. And it can itself show strong internal variations (French Polynesia, Guyana, Bermuda) depending on the distance from the local center, isolation or different forms of marginality (which do not include only isolation or remoteness, but a social margin). In these conditions, people live situations very different from those of the metropolitan areas, with care, views on otherness, solidarities... sometimes far removed from the metropolitan realities. However, on this subject, knowledge is often lacking.

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Brussels

Call for papers - Representation

The Neglected Times of Architecture

By bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives, this conference seeks to unfold the multiple temporal dimensions of architecture and the built environment, to foreground the actions, resources, and actors implicated in these processes, and to explore research methodologies capable of apprehending such dynamics. The event will also feature a dedicated space for the exhibition of audio/visual materials stemming from research engaging with these themes. Submissions may therefore take the form of traditional oral presentations, as well as shorter presentations centred on one or more audio/visual pieces—such as photographs, films, drawings, maps...

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